Re: [Ideas] Your Input requested: Charter Proposal New Version

[Dipankar Raychaudhuri <[e-mail]>]

I reviewed the charter document and feel that it is a good start.  My main
comments are:

(1) I agree with the concept of an identity-identifier split, which is
necessary for an important set of applications requiring dynamic change of
identifier. Realizing this will require something similar to a trusted
“name certification service”  [cf. “MobilityFirst: A Robust and Trustworthy
Mobility-Centric Architecture for the Future Internet, ACM MC2R, July 2012]
in addition to a dynamic name-to-locator mapping/resolution service [cf.
”DMap: A Shared Hosting Scheme for Dynamic Identifier to Locator Mappings
in the Global Internet”, ICDCS 2012]

(2) A key requirement for the mapping service is the ability to support
multiple types of resolution including identifier to identifier (i.e.
recursive), identifier to group of identifiers, identifier to single
locator, identifier to a list of locators, etc.  We have found the
recursive identifier resolution capability to be very useful for scaling
and new service creation.

(3) The final output of the WG at the end of the doc should be filled in a
bit further in terms of specific APIs and query/response/update protocol
definitions to be included in the spec.

(4) While I realize that the current charter’s scope is intentionally
limited to defining general-purpose control plane support, the spec could
be of greater value by defining or linking one or more specific
identifier-based routing (data plane) protocols compatible with the IDEAS
infrastructure.



Ray



(D. Raychaudhuri)

WINLAB, Rutgers University